The cybersecurity bill that would let companies share cyber-threat data with the government contains a privacy provision with a major loophole. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), which cleared a preliminary hurdle on Thursday, promotes the sharing of cyber threat data between businesses, like Facebook, and the federal government.
CISA’s Privacy Safeguard Can Be Overruled By The FBI, NSA, Or Any Federal Agency
The current version of CISA would allow any one of the many federal agencies using the data-sharing portal to override that “scrubbing” process, which is one of the few privacy safeguards in the controversial bill.